I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA! JUST THE TWO CHARECTORS I MADE UP

The moon shone through her window and light up the walls. She sat up in her bed, thinking about the proclimation that was working its way through the villages. She looked to her left to see her little brother sleeping and tears came to her eyes. She thought of her mother and walked from the room quietly, making her way across the hall to the other small bedroom of thier small house.

She slipped through the door and smiled as she saw her mother sleeping, and more silent tears filled her eyes. She shook her head and wiped them clear, making her way to the only other room of the hut. It was large with a small hole in the floor for a fire, with a metal framed pot holder over it where they cooked, a small wood stove to heat the house in the opposit corner, the small incline of the floor where they took thier sandles off and kept them when they walked in the door, and thier bamboo curtained door in front of her.

She took out a small piece of parchment and found some ink that her mother kept away and wrote a small note on it.

Mother,

I will miss you and Sota more than anything, but I must follow the proclimation. The youngest daughed from each family must go and serve in the palace for the kind and queen as new servant. I know you have not yet heard of this, and that is becuase I chose to keep it from you. I hid the proclimation that came to out village after every other family had heard of it. I am truly sorry for decieving you, but I could not have you trying to stop me. It is death to anyone who goes against the king and queens word this time. I hope you can understand. I love you so much, please let Sota know I love him too.

Yours forever,

Kagome

She replaced the ink and quill and quietly made her way to her mothers room again. She left the note on the floor next to her, where she knew she would find it upon waking, and went to give Sota one last kiss on the forehead before walking out of her door. She walked to the place by the road where all the other girls from the village were meeting and looked to see them saying goodbye to thier mothers. Tears came to her eyes as she saw the two horse drawn carts from the palace coming down the road.

SHe sighed and looked up apon hearing her name. SHe saw her best friend Sango running toward her with her little brother following closely behind. Sango was also crying and her brother was yelling for her to stay. The carts had stopped and all the girls were loading into them. Sango's mother had come and grabbed Kohaku, crying as she held him back and watched Sango climb into a cart. She sighed and stepped into the cart, sitting by the window and looked out when she heard her name yelled. She saw her mother running toward the carts crying, with Sota before her.

"Kagome! Kagome!" her mother yelled

"You can't leave us Kagome!" her brother yelled

Tears fell freely from her eyes as she yelled back, her voice thick with emotion.

"I love you both! Goodbye!"

The carts started to move and her mother and brother stopped running toward her, and were being comforted by Sango's mother and brother. They were crying on one anothers shoulders as she pulled her head back in the window and hugged her best friend. They comforted each other the whole ride there, while helping to comfort thier other friends in the cart with them.

at the palace

The carts stopped and the king and queen were waiting on the front steps of the palace with thier two sons on either side of them. The taller of the two looked bored, while the other looked aggitated. Kagome sighed and looked to Sango who seemed to have the same thought running through her head. This outta be fun

The girls stepped out of the carts and they were pulled away by the horses, leaving them to stand in front of the palace bowing to the royal family standing before them. The king cleared his throught and spoke in a strong manly tone.

"You may rise"

The girls all stood straight and looked up the stairs at the quartet. They all had the 'royal look' about them. Right down to the two snobby looking sons. Kagome rolled her eyes and Sango sighed deeply. The king continued to speak.

"You have been summoned here to serve in the palace. We will provide you with rooms, three meals a day, clothing, and of course your individual jobs. We hope you will be comfortable here and you do your jobs well. Now please, come with us"
He walked through the doors with his wife at his side, two sons following, and the girls from the village obediantly trailing behind. They walked through the main doors to have them closed by some servents who were already serving in the palace, and admired the main hall. It was huge! The walls were golden and had painting of the four members of the family, the two sons on either side of the door, and the kind and queen on opposite walls on either side of the door. In front of them, they saw a massive staircase which was followed by a golden railing, and at the top before the hall split into two directions, was a protrait of all four of them, looking magnificent. Kagome staired at the painting, and noticed the shorter of the two sons, seemed to have a different air about him in the painting than he did now.

She was snapped from her thoughts when she was elbowed by Sango, and she shook her head and listed as the queen was talking, in a soft friendly tone.

"Our youngest son, Inuyasha" Inuyasha took a step forward and looked to the girls "Will be guiding you to your rooms, while our oldest son" Sesshomaru stepped forward "Will be telling you your jobs when you are each settled into your rooms. We look forward to having your presences in our palace"

With that, all the girls bowed and watched as the king and queen walked from the room. Inuyasha then spoke up.

"Ok everyone, follow me" His voice was bored and he walked at a brisk pace to the left, going through a door that was carved from the wall. This hall was just as maginificent as the first, and seemed to go forever. After a bit of a walk, the came to a door on the right, that Inuyasha led them down. It took them to a hall the opened to a circle with 7 doors. Again Inuyasha spoke in a bored voice.

"Each door is for one of you. You may chose your own rooms, they all look the same so don't fight over them, and then you will stand in your doorways for your clothes and assigned duties"

The girls went in different directions, each taking the door closest to them, and didn't even bother looking at the room. Instead they stood in the doorway as instructed, and Sesshomaru stepped forward. When he spoke he sounded firm and 'royal'. The total opposite of Inuyasha.

"When I call your name, step forward and Inuyasha will bring you your clothes, and I will tell you of your assignment" He paused seeing that all the girls nodded and then continued, down the list of names

"Sango, Miroku's personal servent. Catherine, my personal servent. Kagome, Inuyasha's personal servent. Elizabeth, the king and queens personal servent. Allison, laundry girl. Sarthen, dinner servent. Mikor, cook"

After Inuyasha had given Mikor her clothes, he walked from the cirle and back down the hall from which they came through. Sesshomaru turned from his list and looked to each of the girls individualy before speaking again.

"You may sleep whenever you feel like, but remember that you must rise when the sun does, so do not over do it. Inuyasha will meet you all at the beginning of the hall he led you down to get here, and tell you where you must all go to start duties tomorrow"

With that, he turned and walked back down the hall. Mikor and Sarthen went into thier rooms to sleep leaving Sango, Eliabeth, Kagome, and Catherine in thier door ways. They were had all been best friends since they were little, fighting with the boys of the village, coming home dirty from play, and yelling at dinner instead of staying hom sewing with thier mothers and collecting vegitables from the garden.

"Can you believe this! We are all forced to come here, and now we all have to serve the royal family!" Kagome yelled "Inuyasha seemed like a stuck up bastard! I don't want to serve him!"

"You do not have a choice, non of us do. And who is Miroku?" Sango asked confusedly

"I have heard of him before!" Piped in Catherine "He is Inuyasha's childhood friend and he has been living with them for a few years now. There was a rumor flying around for a while that Inuyasha and Miroku were a bit of an item and the king and queen chose to have Miroku live here so that they did not meet anywhere public and the secret wouldn't get out"

The girls all laughed out loud at that.

"Thats freaking... great! I... wonder if... its really... true" Elizabeth managed between laughes

"Who... knows! Anything is... possible... I guess" replied Sango between breaths

"I really hope so. It might make my job easier, especially since gay people are supposed to be really happy!" Kagome yelled

Everyone broke down laughing again, and when they finally caught thier breath again they all said good night to each other and went into thier rooms to get thier sleep and get ready for thier first day of work.

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